# Exterior view [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [DELAMAIR, Pierre-Alexis]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Photo ## Commentary Pierre-Alexis Delamair designed the Hôtel de Soubise to include a courtyard with a peristyle. The façade displays the rigorous compositional symmetry of yellowish stone and gray slate roof typical of Paris. Its two-storey frontispiece carries no marked features except the reclining figures on the pediment \(c. 1710\). In 1732, the prince de Rohan was married and he decided to give a fresh, modern decorative appearance to the residence, built a quarter of a century earlier. He commissioned Germain Boffrand to design a new room, which became known as the Salon Ovale de la Princesse. The photo shows the façade of the building. View the <a href="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/support/plans/d/delamair/soubise.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=400,height=600'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return false">general plan</a> of the Hôtel de Soubise and Hôtel de Rohan. ## Related artworks - [Exterior view]() - [Exterior view]() - [General plans of Hôtel de Soubise and Hôtel de Rohan]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()